#2881 Yesterday 01:14:21

Döbbie03

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I do not trust GUGL or iAnything.

Neither do I, but I have become accustomed to how iPhone works. I can see myself on Graphene OS before the end of the year though.

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chroot

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I do not trust GUGL or iAnything.

Neither do I, but I have become accustomed to how iPhone works. I can see myself on Graphene OS before the end of the year though.

iPhone (iOS) is a little better than Android with GSM in terms of privacy.

mcarni

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Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 31

Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

just a quick question as I value the opinions from this forum on anythign tech related

i have not seen anyone mentioning LineageOS and i am wondering if there is anything that you guys don't like about it and that i should know

i am asking because have installed lineageos and other alternative roms on my phones for some years and i am happy with it
sometimes it is easiers, sometimes it is more a pain in the a** depending whethere there is an official lineageos release or not but I cannot complain

in most of the cases i have installed the version with no google apps so I have to do everything through F-Droid https://f-droid.org/

I wish I could but too many professionals (doctors, dentists, pharmacies etc) in this GForsaken 3rd world country work with WhatsApp. 

In my case i had to install Whattsapp through Aurora  https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ , never had issues with it

I do have some troubles with bank apps, but usually with a bit of tinkering they can be solved...

i don't want to promote or advocate, i am genuinely curious to hear your opinion

M

Jimbo_G

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From: France

Registered: 2017-05-12

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I don't think there's anything "wrong" with LineageOS, it's just that so few people use anything other than stock Android or iOS, even on here. I have a phone running Ubuntu Touch which works okay for my needs, but I've never met anyone else who uses it.

Martin

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I don't think there's anything "wrong" with LineageOS, it's just that so few people use anything other than stock Android or iOS, even on here. I have a phone running Ubuntu Touch which works okay for my needs, but I've never met anyone else who uses it.

Tell us more about your Ubuntu Touch experience.

/Martin

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chroot

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Registered: 2024-12-12

Posts: 130

Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

just a quick question as I value the opinions from this forum on anythign tech related

i have not seen anyone mentioning LineageOS and i am wondering if there is anything that you guys don't like about it and that i should know

i am asking because have installed lineageos and other alternative roms on my phones for some years and i am happy with it
sometimes it is easiers, sometimes it is more a pain in the a** depending whethere there is an official lineageos release or not but I cannot complain

in most of the cases i have installed the version with no google apps so I have to do everything through F-Droid https://f-droid.org/

I wish I could but too many professionals (doctors, dentists, pharmacies etc) in this GForsaken 3rd world country work with WhatsApp. 

In my case i had to install Whattsapp through Aurora  https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ , never had issues with it

I do have some troubles with bank apps, but usually with a bit of tinkering they can be solved...

i don't want to promote or advocate, i am genuinely curious to hear your opinion

M

The main hurdle of using those Android w/o GSM systems is payment. There's no way to use your phone to make payments in a secure way like Google Pay and Apple Pay. Other than that, they are 100% usable.

mcarni

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Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 31

Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I don't think there's anything "wrong" with LineageOS, it's just that so few people use anything other than stock Android or iOS, even on here. I have a phone running Ubuntu Touch which works okay for my needs, but I've never met anyone else who uses it.

it just sounded strange to hear about graphene and not about lineageos, i assumed lineage had a bigger audience than graphene, maybe i am wrong...

The main hurdle of using those Android w/o GSM systems is payment. There's no way to use your phone to make payments in a secure way like Google Pay and Apple Pay. Other than that, they are 100% usable.

this makes sense, i don't use my phone to pay

I don't think there's anything "wrong" with LineageOS, it's just that so few people use anything other than stock Android or iOS, even on here. I have a phone running Ubuntu Touch which works okay for my needs, but I've never met anyone else who uses it.

Tell us more about your Ubuntu Touch experience.

/Martin

yep, @Jimbo_G please let us know, that would be very interesting

as always, great discussions here at BL

M